![]() People still carrying around the trauma of being mercilessly ridiculed by Rangers fans and others during the mid-90’s are understandably gonna hold a grudge. In my first visit to UBS Arena, I wore the Fisherman Ziggy Palffy jersey that’s been locked away in my parents’ house since 1996.īut that’s just me. Paying tribute to the hardworking fishermen of Long Island just wasn’t part of the equation. Islanders fans were proud of the team’s classic and now current logo. Looking back at it myself, and reading Nick Hirshon’s great book, We Want Fishsticks, I understand why it was done and how the owners at the time didn’t understand the difference between civic pride and sports pride. Personally, I’ve made peace with the Fisherman. Heck, even Johnny Boychuk used it when he was able to design his own Islanders cap. While there is still a vocal group that can’t stand the sight of this bearded bastard child, there’s an undeniable popularity to it that makes people want it, two decades after absolutely no one did (outside of maybe his twin, Stan Fischler). The return of the Fisherman jersey has been a lukewarm topic for years now, and it only got warmer in the last couple of seasons as the team started selling merch with that logo on it at the official team store. Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images They’ve used the logo in warmup jerseys before, such as these forgotten threads from 2015: Matty Marts makes anything look good. This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen the old bayman on a modern Islanders jersey. James Nichols of Isles Fix and the Nassau Men podcast had a closer look at what an all orange version of the Fisherman could look like, and several folks replied with a version that’s already available in the team store. Maybe the jersey would be the darker blue and orange of their last Reverse Retro uniform design. But using the clues from Icethetics, you can picture what it will look like in your mind’s eye. We will have to wait for a full reveal of the uniforms at a later date. Would that be better? Not just one maligned design but two, combining into an ultimate Voltron of Uneasy Islanders Uniforms? The only thing about the black version that we can agree on is that it would piss off literally everyone: Fisherman haters, Yormark Non-More-Black haters, Third Jersey in General Haters and even Fisherman enjoyers who wouldn’t be getting the true Time Displacement feel they’re looking for.) The site assumes that Adidas pitched the idea to the team, who turned it down. (Icethetics also mentions in the video the discovered portfolio of a former designer from Adidas that showed an Islanders Reverse Retro design that had the Fisherman logo, with teal wave, on a black uniform. The twist is that the jersey will use current team colors only - blue and orange, no teal. ![]() Multiple sources tell me the Isles’ Reverse Retro design is based on their 1995 rebrand which was wildly unpopular at the time, but has gained kind of a cult status in recent years. After 25 years in exile, he’s coming back.
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